New easy-to-use instruments and interesting content material will assist college students suppose critically in regards to the tech and media they use for studying and leisure.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Common Sense Education, creators of the award-winning, Ok–12 Digital Citizenship Curriculum, has developed a one-stop vacation spot with important new templates, instruments, and assets designed to assist make the back-to-school transition a little simpler for educators and to raised tackle the alternatives and challenges faculty communities face right this moment and sooner or later.
With the rising presence of and dependency on the usage of media and expertise within the classroom, and the rise of uncivil discourse spreading on-line, educators want extra assist than ever earlier than to equip college students with all the pieces they want to achieve an ever-changing on-line life.
Digital Connections is an informative and academic six-part video collection for tweens, teenagers, and their dad and mom and caregivers, developed by Common Sense Media in collaboration with AT&T and the Public Library Association. Students and their households will be taught ideas and methods on utilizing media and expertise safely and responsibly in enjoyable and interesting methods. The movies give attention to serving to college students be taught key digital citizenship abilities, from managing digital habits and navigating on-line relationships to coping with digital drama and avoiding web scams.
“In right this moment’s more and more related world, it’s essential for college students to construct their digital citizenship competency abilities,” stated Mylayna Albright, assistant vp, CSR, AT&T. “But not all college students have entry to digital citizenship schooling at house or at their faculties — particularly college students and households affected by the digital divide. I’m excited to supply this vital digital literacy skilling to college students on the Achievery, our free digital studying platform for Ok–12 college students.”
“The Public Library Association is dedicated to serving to college students be taught digital citizenship abilities,” stated PLA President Maria McCauley. “Library employees work each day to counter misinformation and share credible data. PLA is devoted to offering easy-to-use assets for our members, youth, and households to enhance abilities to successfully use on-line platforms and instruments.”
New “Civics in Digital Life” Lesson Plans for Grades 8–12
Because college students are more and more uncovered to contentious subjects on-line, Common Sense Education has curated a set of classes, Civics in Digital Life, to immediate constructive dialogues within the classroom on subjects comparable to:
Created with assist from the Koret Foundation, the brand new content material providing is an enlargement of Common Sense Media’s News and Media Literacy classes and enhances the group’s free, award-winning Digital Citizenship Curriculum that’s at the moment utilized by 1.3 million educators and over 90,000 faculties throughout the U.S.
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